I think the biggest irony of this ytmnd is that I am actually not much of a doodler in classes. I know a lot of people do it, but I mostly just stare into space and think about other things. I think I did more here than I have at any given time.

Who are you kidding, you mental weakling? Anything below a 105 in any subject is unacceptable. I got a 105 in Calculus when I was 9. Now at 18 in my last year of med school I haven't gotten a question wrong since grade 2 when I was taking finals for my 4th language fluency course.
Mental ants, all of you.

Bizarrely, once you get to PhD courses, your finals (if they even exist) are well before finals week. Finals week instead becomes plagued with due dates and presentations of months-long projects worth half your grade.

pfft, at my college we're lucky if we even GET finals! usually they just assign everyone a pair of moon boots and have us try to JUMP TO THE MOON on our way to class; and if we don't get to the moon by the time we get to class, we just have to sit through class as usual. usual meaning all they have us do is watch episodes of fraiser whilst feeding us complementary tossed salad and scrambled eggs.